General College Education in Arunachal Pradesh: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Arunachal Pradesh, the land of rising sun situated in the North Eastern Part of India formed on February 20, 1987 is the 13^th geographically largest State among all States and Union Territories of India. Education has always been linked to life and society. Though elementary education is more effective towards the improvement of literacy, but College education i.e., higher education is the basic source to supply the skilled and qualitative labouers for the direct development of any economy. Collegeeducation boosts up the economy more by supplying skill labourers. The objective of the paper is to find out the status of elementary education in Arunachal Pradesh. This study is a descriptive type of research based on secondary data gathered frombooks, articles, websites, and web-based journals.